ling5202 topics in bilingualism course outline 2013-2014 cuhk

8/12/2019 LING5202 Topics in Bilingualism Course Outline 2013-2014 CUHK

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2Expected time allocation of each of below learning activities during the course:

Lecture Interactive

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M: Mandatory activity in the course, O: Optional activity, NA: Not applicable

Assessment schemeTask nature Description WeightExam covering 1sthalf of course Midterm exam 30%Exam covering 2ndhalf of course Final exam 30%A project that conducts an in-depth

study of a topic of interest

Term Project 40%

Attendance counts for 10% of total marks (from 1stlesson for required and 3rdlesson for elective courses).If student misses 3 lessons, 5% will be deducted. If the student misses 4 lessons, another 5% will be deducted.

Learning resources for students:Kroll, J. F., & DeGroot, A. M. B. (Eds.). (2009).Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches. New

York: Oxford University Press.

Bhatia, T. K., & Ritchie, W. C. (Eds.). (2005). The handbook of bilingualism. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Grosjean, F., & Li, P. (2013). The Psycholinguistics of bilingualism. Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Li, W. (2007). The bilingualism reader(2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.

Suggested readings:Grosjean, F. (2010).Bilingual: Life and Reality. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Journals

Bilingualism: Language and CognitionInternational Journal of Bilingual Education and BilingualismInternational Journal of BilingualismInternational Journal of Multilingualism

Journal of Child LanguageWebsitesChild Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre (CBRC) http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/cbrc/Phonetics: http://liceu.uab.es/~joaquim/applied_linguistics/L2_phonetics/Fonetica_Biling_Bib.html

Blogs

Francois Grosjean: Life as a Bilingual http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/life-bilingualMadalena Cruz: Being Multilingual http://beingmultilingual.blogspot.com/2010/10/being-multilingual.html

Feedback for evaluation

Students are welcome to give comments and feedback by sending them in written form to the TAs emailaddress or talking to the instructor and TA individually.A term-end questionnaire will be administered to collect feedback for evaluation.


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3Course scheduleClass/ week Date Topic

Week 1 January 7 Introduction to Bilingualism

Romaine, S. 1989. Introduction to the study ofbilingualism. InBilingualism, Oxford: Blackwell, pp.1-12.

Li, W. 2007. Dimensions of bilingualism. In Li (ed.) Thebilingualism reader, 2nd edition, New York: Routledge,pp.3-22.

Grosjean, F. 2012. What do bilinguals and hurdlers havein common? Psychology Today. Available from:http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/life-bilingual/201207/what-do-bilinguals-and-hurdlers-have-in-common

Week 2 January 14 Bilingualism in a Global World

Myers-Scotton, C. 2006. Language policies andglobalization. InMultiple voices: An introduction tobilingualism, Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp.369-411.

Week 3 January 21 Becoming Bilingual

Meisel, J. M. 2006. The bilingual child. In Bhatia &Ritchie (eds.)Handbook of bilingualism, Oxford:Blackwell, pp.91-113.

Genesee F. 2007. Early bilingual language development:One language or two? In Li (ed.) The bilingualism reader,2ndedition, New York: Routledge, pp.320-335.

Week 4 January 28 Bilingual Language Production

Costa, A. 2006. Speech production in bilinguals. In Bhatia& Ritchie (eds.)Handbook of bilingualism, Oxford:Blackwell, pp.201-223.

Week 5 February 4 Chinese New Year Holiday

Week 6 February 11 Bilingual Speech Perception and LanguageComprehension

Sebastian-Galles N. & Bosch, L. 2009. Phonology and

bilingualism. In Kroll & DeGroot (eds.) The handbook ofbilingualism, New York: Oxford University Press,pp.68-87.

Kroll, J. F. & Dussias, P. E. 2006. The comprehension ofwords and sentences in two languages. In Bhatia &Ritchie (eds.) Handbook of bilingualism, Oxford:Blackwell, pp. 169-200.

Week 7 February 18 Code-switching and Code-mixing

Poplack, S. (1980). Sometimes Ill start a sentence inSpanish Y TERMINO EN ESPAOL: Toward a typologyof code-switching.Linguistics, 18, 581-618.

Week 8 February 25 Midterm exam


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4Week 9 March 4 Bilingual Language Control

Grosjean, F. 2008. The bilingual's language modes. InStudying bilinguals, New York: Oxford University Press,pp.37-66.

Green D. W. 1998. Mental control of the bilingual

lexico-semantic system.Bilingualism: Language andCognition, 1:6781.

Week 10 March 11 The Bilingual Mind

de Groot, A. M. B. 2013. Bilingual memory. In Thepsycholinguistics of bilingualism, Sussex, UK:Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 171-191.

Week 11 March 18 The Bilingual Brain

Abutalebi, J., Cappa, S. F., & Perani, D. 2009. What canfunctional neuroimaging tell us about the bilingual brain?In Kroll & DeGroot (eds.) The handbook of bilingualism,New York: Oxford University Press, pp.497-515.

Week 12 March 25 The Advantages of Being Bilingual

Arsenian, S. 1945. Bilingualism in the post-war world.Psychological Bulletin, 42, 65-86.

Bialystok, E., Craik, F. I. M., & Luk, G. 2012.Bilingualism: Consequences for mind and brain. Trends inCognitive Sciences, 16:240250.

Bhattacharjee, Y. 2012. The benefits of bilingualism. NewYork Times. Available from: http://nyti.ms/1hdVB4b

Week 13 April 1 Language Disorders in Bilingual Subjects

Green, D. W. 2009. The neurocognition of recoverypatterns in bilingual aphasics. In Kroll & DeGroot (eds.)The handbook of bilingualism, New York: OxfordUniversity Press, pp.516-530.

Fabbro, F. (2001). The bilingual brain: Bilingualaphasia.Brain and Language,79, 201-210.

Week 14 April 8 The Future of Bilingual Research

Luk, G., & Bialystok, E. (2013). Bilingualism is not acategorical variable: Interaction between languageproficiency and usage.Journal of Cognitive Psychology,25, 1-17.

Week 15 April 15 Final exam

April 22 Tuesday Term Project due date


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5Teacher and TAs contact details

Professor/Lecturer/Instructor: Adjunct Assistant Professor

Name: Mark Antoniou

Office Location: Leung Kau Kui Building room G36

Telephone: 3943 3779

Email: [email protected] Venue: ELB LT1

Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/new/people/mark/

Other information:

Teaching Assistant/Tutor: TAs

Name: Emily Haoyan Ge & Akshay Raj Maggu

Office Location:Leung Kau Kui Building RM G16 (Emily) & Leung Kau Kui Building,G36 (Akshay)

Telephone: 3943-7053 (office: Emily) & 3943 3779 (office: Akshay)Email: [email protected](Emily) & [email protected](Akshay)

Teaching Venue: ELB LT1

Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/new/people/students/maggu/(Akshay)

Other information: N/A

A facility for posting course announcementsAll announcements of the course will be posted on Moodle.

Academic honesty and plagiarismAttention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the disciplinaryguidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found athttp://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty. With each assignment, students will be required to submit astatement that they are aware of these policies, regulations, guidelines and procedures.

For each written assignment, students are required to submit a signed declarationthat they are aware of thesepolicies, regulations, guidelines and procedures. For group projects, all students of the same group should beasked to sign on the declaration.

For assignments/papers in the form of a computer-generated document that is principally text-based and

submitted via VeriGuide, the statement, in the form of a receipt, will be issued by the system upon students'uploading of the soft copy of the assignment. Assignments that do not have the receipt attached will not begraded. Only the final version of the assignment should be submitted via VeriGuide.

ling5202 topics in bilingualism course outline 2013-2014 cuhk

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